[Rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere] means we have a compelling need to MEASURE each country’s carbon emissions, to quantify their impact on global warming, in order to make the changes needed to save our kids’ summers outdoors (and verify our international treaty obligations)
Certainly we need to measure net CO2 emissions. The "treaty obligations, "however, are problematic. International agreements (at COP) should focus on policies that will reduce net emissions of CO2 and methane at least total cost. In principle that might, with very good modeling, be translated into percentage reductions in each nation state's emissions by some target date, but to do so would be rather otiose. The thing that would need to be monitored is effective execution of the agreed policies.
[Rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere] means we have a compelling need to MEASURE each country’s carbon emissions, to quantify their impact on global warming, in order to make the changes needed to save our kids’ summers outdoors (and verify our international treaty obligations)
Certainly we need to measure net CO2 emissions. The "treaty obligations, "however, are problematic. International agreements (at COP) should focus on policies that will reduce net emissions of CO2 and methane at least total cost. In principle that might, with very good modeling, be translated into percentage reductions in each nation state's emissions by some target date, but to do so would be rather otiose. The thing that would need to be monitored is effective execution of the agreed policies.
See:
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/cop-28-and-counting
and others
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/why-not-lng-exports
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/climate-risk-and-insurance
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/legal-remedies-for-climate-change 1
https://thomaslhutcheson.substack.com/p/legal-remedies-for-climate-change 2